488 So. 2d 48 - Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'An [impermissible] charge upon the effect of the evidence is a charge which instructs the jury that certain facts in issue have been proved, or that certain evidence in the case does or does not establish a certain fact or facts in dispute, or directs the jury what their finding on an issue of fact must be if they believe the evidence in the case.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 581 So. 2d 1266 - Coffey v. State

2. “Although a judge may instruct a jury `that there is or is not evidence of particular facts when such is the case,' Seibold v. State, 287 Ala. 549 , 562 , 253 So.2d 302 (1970), a judge should not comment on the weight of the evidence or draw conclusions from disputed facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 776 So. 2d 206 - Estes v. State

3. “Of course you know that Dewey Lee Jones shot him, because the evidence is not inconclusive there, it is as conclusive as it can be.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 581 So. 2d 1266 - Coffey v. State